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.... The Kwi—made from the kalbas or calabash tree ( Crescentia Cujete )— are the simple, sacred, and profane holder of rasanblaj, a gathering of ideas, things, people, and spirits, (Though not necessarily in that order!). The Ochre came first, a gift handed to me by a Wiradjuri artist in Darwin...

... from generation to generation, singing the chants. You see, in many ways, the ceremonies have always been changing. —Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony The Kwi—made from the kalbas or calabash tree ( Crescentia Cujete )— are the simple, sacred, and profane holder of rasanblaj, a gathering...

..., and nationalisms. Serendipitously, in analyzing Comhaire-Sylvain’s photography, Sanders Jonson draws on the work of our cover artist, Haitian-American anthropologist Gina Athena-Ulysse, whose piece “Indigo” offers a “meditation on aesthetic identity” as part of the “Tools of the Trade or Women’s Work” Kwi series...

...?” (197). Our next piece, a stunning Visual Essay by Gina Athena Ulysse, offers a subtle but powerful example of artmaking as epistemology and ontology. “Tools of the Trade; or, Women’s Works” brings together kwi (gourds) made from the calabash tree—which is native to the Caribbean—and the ocher...